Ask your kids to come straight home...

[EsquireFuss]

I work in a small local shop and while there are no schools nearby, our location means that people pass us en masse on their way home.

Yesterday, with the kids back at school, between 3pm and 6pm, many groups of children descended to buy sweets and pop and crisps. No masks. And while I'm quite happy to insist obvious older children wear them - we still have many primary school children coming in with their friends.

So, my personal plea, please ask your children to come straight home, cos I'd really like to see my mum and dad this year.

I was at school in the 80s and 90s and was always only 2 kids allowed in the shops so why not that now?

You lost me at “pop”

This cannot be real

@TheOrigRights. It's ok, it's my own fence . I am indeed STFAH. Currently perched on it trying to get some incriminating snaps of the elderly couple next door in their living-room... they were vaccinated in January and it's completely gone to their heads. I've had suspicions for a while that they're holding illicit bridge evenings but I just haven't been able to get the proof I need to bang them to rights yet...Tonight may be the night !!! #doingmybit, #lockdownisforlife, #nochocolateforchildren.

@TheOrigRights

I'm on the fence on this one...

Bloody hell....get off! You're meant to be AT HOME!

😂😂😂

@Moondust001

You can ban anyone from your shop (if the owner agrees). Otherwise, really, you are being ridiculous. Those children are in school with teachers all day, and the evidence suggests that they are not at any greater risk than anyone else, so neither are you if you see them for minutes. And which children are on their way home from school at 6pm?

The evidence looking at teachers is flawed. The ONS looked at a 9 month period from March to December - 6 months of which schools were closed (to the vast majority of children). Another study in December, took samples from those in school in a particular day - therefore no one who was off school due to having COVID or isolating due to being a contact was tested/included in the study.

@EsquireFuss

I work in a small local shop and while there are no schools nearby, our location means that people pass us en masse on their way home.

Yesterday, with the kids back at school, between 3pm and 6pm, many groups of children descended to buy sweets and pop and crisps. No masks. And while I'm quite happy to insist obvious older children wear them - we still have many primary school children coming in with their friends.

So, my personal plea, please ask your children to come straight home, cos I'd really like to see my mum and dad this year.

Customers are customers irrespective of their age - why single out school children? It's rude.

And you don't have the authority to insist anyone wears a face covering.

[quote MessAllOver]@TheOrigRights. It's ok, it's my own fence . I am indeed STFAH. Currently perched on it trying to get some incriminating snaps of the elderly couple next door in their living-room... they were vaccinated in January and it's completely gone to their heads. I've had suspicions for a while that they're holding illicit bridge evenings but I just haven't been able to get the proof I need to bang them to rights yet...Tonight may be the night !!! #doingmybit, #lockdownisforlife, #nochocolateforchildren.[/quote]
Have you tried camouflaging yourself with bits of Bush and sneaking up to their window?

I hear old people are a bit like the tyrannosaurus rex from the jurrassic park movies and cant see you if you stay still.

You're wasting your time on her OP, I think that's obvious. Children have rights don't you know and if big groups of them are in your shop without masks buying junk having refused lateral flow tests because their mum said they didn't have to have it then you need to suck it up just like the teachers.

I would speak to your employer, numbers should be limited in the shop and masks should be worn xxx

Paranoia about Covid is just a cover for a hatred of children, and probably other adults.

Well this is a monumentally stupid take on a pandemic.

No. I won’t tell my daughter to come straight home. If your shop is open to customers, then customers can go in. Maybe re-think your job choices.

Have you tried camouflaging yourself with bits of Bush and sneaking up to their window?

I hear old people are a bit like the tyrannosaurus rex from the jurrassic park movies and cant see you if you stay still.

. Trying to decide whether technically this would be STFAH or not.

There's an easy solution for all those parents whose children are stopping off for sweets and snacks on the way home. Confiscate it as they come through the door on the basis that it represents the proceeds of crime ("unnecessary" shopping). Then scoff it yourself later.

Thing is most people probably think their children are well behaved. The past few weeks I've had groups of secondary school age children banging on my windows, covering them in mud and throwing stones at them. I can't work anywhere else in the house and I don't want to work with my curtains shut the whole time. This is on the way to the local shop where they go in with no masks but the owner can't do anything as they say they're exempt...

My son couldn't come straight home even if he wanted to because of the times of the buses.

Yesterday he got himself a takeaway pizza and went to the newsagents to buy sweets (and an unspecified other gift item which I'm guessing is something to do with Mother's Day).

On the upside- all those secondary aged children will have had a covid test this week and will have another shortly. While I know, they aren't 100% accurate, this is better than the adults who on the main, are not having regular testing. Its is probably safer to be serving the kids than the adults now.